Sharon Lewis & Texas Fire - Grown Ass Woman

Size: 133,7 MB
Time: 56:57
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Front

01. Can't Do It Like We Do (4:20)
02. Hell Yeah! (3:25)
03. Chicago Woman (4:30)
04. They're Lying (5:08)
05. Don't Try To Judge Me (3:19)
06. Old Man's Baby (4:55)
07. Grown Ass Woman (3:17)
08. Walk With Me (3:14)
09. Freedom (4:08)
10. Call Home (2:53)
11. Home Free Blues (4:43)
12. High Road (3:26)
13. Why I Sing The Blues (4:38)
14. Soul Shine (4:55)

Blues Diva Sharon Lewis first hit the stage on May 5, 1993 with a blues/rock band called Under The Gun. She and "Gun" premiered May 5, 1993 at Buddy Guy's Legends to a throng of family and friends.

Sharon's commitment to the blues has paid off handsomely, as she's developed into one of Chicago’s hottest blues acts, and has twiced performed at the largest Blues Fest in the world - The Chicago Blues Festival.

These days, she frequents as a headliner at most all of Chicago’s major blues clubs, including Blue Chicago, B.L.U.E.S., Buddy Guy’s Legends, House of Blues, Kingston Mines & Rosa’s Lounge. Additionally, she's also a featured attraction with Chicago Blues All-Stars, a band boasting a line-up that features a virtual who's who of the blues in the Windy City.

Sharon & her band have performed with legendary blues artists as Koko Taylor, Son Seals, Denise LaSalle, Robben Ford, Coco Montoya, Billy Branch, Melvin Taylor, and Sugar Blue to name only a few.

Her first major international tour in 1998 fired up the Czech Republic, Germany, Luxembourg, France, Holland and Belgium with The Next Generation Band. During this tour she recorded with Carl Wyatt (Living In Exile: Singing The Blues) on Blue Road Records, Luxembourg.

After a year's hiatus from performing, Ms. Lewis returned in 2001 to open with Billy Branch & The Sons of The Blues at Chicago’s Rooster Blues and immediately reclaimed her status as one of Chicago’s next generation blues vocalists.

In March 2001 (the “Best Tour”) Sharon returned to Europe for an extensive Czech Republic tour and again garnered raves as the “Vocalist of the Month” in Liberca, Czech Republic. Highly acclaimed reviews for this tour sparked a 2002 Tour (the “Very Best Tour”) with a revamped Next Generation Band – Jan Korinek and GROOVE. With GROOVE she toured extensively in the Czech Republic and Poland, opening for Robben Ford and enjoying equal billing status with Robben and Michael Urbniak (New York) at a two-day festival in the Czech Republic.

In September 2002 she received a Reader "Critic’s Choice” commendation. Ms. Lewis' debut CD "Everything Is Gonna Be Alright" (with Under the Gun) was enthusiastically received upon its release this July.

Grown Ass Woman

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Sharon Lewis & Texas Fire - The Real Deal

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 59:37
Size: 136.5 MB
Styles: Soul blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[4:14] 1. What's Really Going On
[3:22] 2. The Real Deal
[3:34] 3. Do Something For Me
[4:17] 4. Crazy Love
[7:59] 5. Mother Blues
[4:04] 6. Blues Train
[4:02] 7. Please Mr. Jailer
[3:58] 8. Mojo Kings
[3:36] 9. Silver Fox
[4:16] 10. You Can't Take My Life
[5:56] 11. Ain't No Sunshine
[3:26] 12. Don't Play That Song
[6:46] 13. Angel

After years of being a cog in the Chicago blues scene, Sharon Lewis steps out with a dandy national release that will have the rest of the country wondering where this gritty, soulful vocalist has been all this time. As the horn-struttin’ title track proclaims, she, indeed, is the real deal, one of the last classic, hardscrabble blues-soul vocalists who has earned her stripes and has life’s scars to prove it.

Eight of the dozen tracks are originals spanning the blues fodder gamut, economic social commentary (“What’s Really Going On?”), slinky, sexual appeal (“Mojo Kings”) and cheatin’ husbands whom she orders ‘go on back to your wife’ (“You Can’t Take My Life”). Of the four covers, Wynona Carr’s “Please Mr. Jailer” (recorded in 1956) towers over the renditions of Van Morrison’s “Crazy Love” and Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine.” It’s a mother’s plea for her son’s freedom, still a topical subject today as there are more young African-Americans behind bars than in college. Stylistically, every track differs from its predecessor, whether it’s a hard-driving shuffle featuring Specter’s slashing guitar work, an uplifting gospel arrangement (“Angel”), a late night jazzy interlude (“Silver Fox”), or a zealous soul shouter (“Blues Train”). When you have as many cards as Lewis has, there’s no need to ever play the same hand twice. ~ Dan Willging

Dave Specter - guitar; Roosevelt Purifoy - piano, Fender Rhodes piano, organ; Sharon Lewis - vocals; Tony Dale - drums.

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Dave Specter - Live In Chicago

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 66:26
Size: 152.1 MB
Styles: Electric Chicago blues
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[7:56] 1. Boss Funk Riverside Ride
[6:22] 2. What Love Did To Me
[5:27] 3. How I Got To Memphis
[5:47] 4. What's Your Angle
[6:38] 5. Texas Top
[6:13] 6. Feel So Bad
[8:27] 7. Out On The Road
[7:02] 8. Is What It Is
[5:14] 9. In Too Deep
[7:16] 10. Angel

Blues guitarist Dave Specter is never prone to grandstanding. He communicates an inherent sense of style and form, subtlety and swing, keeping his magnetic needle always fixed on a steady, unalterable course. Recorded live at Buddy Guy's Legends and Rosa's.

Dave Specter is joined by a few special guests, including Sharon Lewis, Tad Robinson and Jimmy Johnson, on this live recording from Buddy Guy's Legends and Rosa's Blues Lounge. The CD contains four instrumentals and two songs by each of the guest vocalists.

Live In Chicago

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